Coding and AI Classes in Vermont

Course picks for Vermont

Four ways to start, wherever the school is

Pick by grade and interest; the free first lesson checks the fit before anything is agreed.

Grades 1 to 5

Scratch Coding for Kids

Stories, animations and games in Scratch, ideal when the elementary school has no computing class.

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Grades 6 to 9

HTML & CSS for Beginners

Real websites from scratch: structure, style and publishing, the kind of digital creation the ISTE Standards ask for.

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Grades 8 to 12

Python for Teens

Python from first program to data projects, including the library-name cleaning task described on this page.

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Grades 10 to 12

AP Computer Science A

AP Computer Science A in Java for students whose school does not offer the course or wants extra support.

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Browse the course atlas for more than one hundred options and use the coding roadmap to check prerequisites.

The four we are known for

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

These run underneath everything above. Every one is live and online, placed by ability rather than by age, and the first class is free.

Vibe codingAges 13 to 17

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.

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Python and AICollege and adult

Python Automation Course

Automate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.

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AI and MLAges 14 to 18

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Train a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.

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Agentic codingProfessionals

Codex & Claude Code

Run AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.

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Flexible pathways

How Vermont’s graduation model leaves room for coding

From Agency of Education pages read on 17 and 18 October 2026. A search of the agency site for computer science returned no dedicated CS page.

Vermont flexible pathways and related rules, as the Agency of Education describes them
Element	What the agency says
The law	The Flexible Pathways Initiative was created by Act 77 of 2013 and sits in statute at 16 V.S.A. § 941
Personalized learning	Act 77 charged secondary educators to create personalized learning environments offering flexible pathways to graduation
Dual enrollment	Under 16 V.S.A. § 944, eligible high school students can take up to two college courses
Early college	Eligible twelfth graders can enroll full-time for one academic year at an approved college
Virtual and blended learning	Listed as a way to reach coursework beyond the traditional classroom
Quality rules	The Education Quality Standards, approved in 2013, took effect on April 5, 2014

No CS course mandate

We found no statewide rule that every Vermont student takes computer science. What counts toward a diploma is set locally inside the proficiency and pathway framework.

Room to personalize

A personalized learning plan is exactly where a student can name coding as a goal, then show evidence of what they built, whether inside or outside school.

Ask before assuming

Whether any outside class earns credit is the district’s decision, never ours. Our classes are not an approved Vermont course provider, and we do not say otherwise.

Signature project

Cleaning the names of Vermont’s 191 public libraries

Vermont’s geodata portal (VCGI) publishes a list of public libraries supplied by the state Department of Libraries on April 3, 2024. The names look simple. They are not, which makes them a perfect first lesson in text cleaning.

VT Data, Public Libraries: our counts from the VCGI download (191 records, count check matched)
What we checked	Our result
Records and distinct names	191 and 191
Counties and towns represented	All 14 counties; 176 town names, with Hartford appearing four times
Counties with the most libraries	Windsor 24, Rutland 21, Windham 19
Most common final word of a name	Public 67, Memorial 45, Free 22, Community 10, Town 8
Names that contain the word Free anywhere	34
Names that still include the word Library	8, while the rest have it trimmed off
Names with a stray space at the start or end	4

Spot the mess

Most names end before the word Library, a few keep it, and four carry an invisible trailing space. Two names that look identical on screen can fail an equality test in Python for that reason alone.

Clean it

Students write a small function: strip spaces, drop a final Library, standardize case, then split each name into words. They test it on ten tricky names before running it on all 191.

Count the words

With clean names, counting final words becomes one line. Students find that Public and Memorial dominate, and that Free shows up somewhere in 34 names, which only a word-level count reveals.

Our counts, their data

The figures in the table are ours, from one download. VCGI and the State of Vermont state that they make no warranty about the data, and the list reflects the Department of Libraries file of April 2024, so a library opened or renamed since may be missing. Contact details in the file are never printed or used in class.

A fifth grader can do the counting by hand on twenty names and see why a computer helps. A high schooler can go on to match library towns against another state list, where one town name, Hartford, sits behind four separate library records and the next question is how to tell them apart.

Published figures

Vermont computer science access and enrollment

Values from Code.org and the College Board, quoted as published. A dash in the source means no data, and we leave it blank.

Vermont public high schools with foundational CS, Code.org (2025), by school year
Year	Share offering CS
2018 to 2019	27%
2019 to 2020	60%
2020 to 2021	64%
2021 to 2022	76%
2022 to 2023	73.3%
2023 to 2024	60%, or 33 of 55 high schools
2024 to 2025	No Vermont value

Enrollment and AP in Vermont
Measure	Value	Source
High schoolers enrolled in CS, 2023 to 2024	766 of 24,384, or 3.14%	Code.org (2025); NCES fall 2022 base
Enrollment share, 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2023	3.7% and 3.68%	Code.org (2025)
Schools giving any AP exam, 2023 and 2024	65 and 69	College Board
Of which public	53 and 51	College Board
Of which non-public	12 and 18	College Board

Two things stand out. The access line rose steeply after 2018 to 2019 and then fell back to 60%, and with only 55 high schools in the count, a handful of schools adding or dropping a course moves the percentage a long way. Enrollment has stayed between about 3% and 4% in every year reported. Cite these figures as Code.org (2025). 2025 State of AI + CS Education; we print single values only.

Technology standards

Vermont’s ISTE Standards and what they ask of students

The Agency of Education says the State Board adopted the ISTE Standards for student learning, aligned with the Education Quality Standards, to describe what students should know and do with information technology.

What they are

The ISTE Standards describe how students use technology to learn, create and communicate. They are a technology framework, not a programming course, so a school can meet them without teaching a language.

Where coding fits

Building a website, a game or a data analysis is one of the most direct ways to show creative and computational use of technology. That is the work our classes are built around.

Online options

The agency also lists the Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative, which it says offers over 300 online courses, supports on average 1500 learners a year and works with more than 70 schools and organizations.

A note on the agency wording

The agency page expands ISTE in its own words. We quote only the name ISTE Standards and the facts above, as published, and make no claim about any provider listed there. We are not connected with the Agency of Education or the cooperative.

Time zone

Eastern Time from Burlington to Brattleboro

The IANA time zone database places Vermont in the US eastern group, America/New_York.

Through October

Vermont is on daylight time, and the clock in India reads nine and a half hours later.

November 1, 2026

Standard time begins and the gap with India widens by an hour, to ten and a half, until the spring.

March 14, 2027

Daylight time returns. Lesson times never move on the Vermont clock; we handle the change on our side.

Learning path

A Vermont student’s path from first program to AP

Grade bands are rough guides. The placement lesson sets the real starting point.

Grades 1 to 4

Tinker

Block programs, patterns and characters that move, built and debugged by the child.

Scratch Coding for Kids Coding for Kids

Grades 5 to 8

Make and publish

Web pages and first Python programs, shared with family and friends.

HTML & CSS for Beginners Python and AI for Kids

Grades 9 to 10

Handle real data

Python in depth, text cleaning, charts and a portfolio piece for a learning plan.

Python for Teens Data Science for Teens

Grades 11 to 12

Go further

AP Computer Science A, and AI models trained on data the student has prepared.

AP Computer Science A AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Coding and AI

An AI tool can clean a list. Can it tell you what it changed?

The library project is a quick test of why students should understand code before handing work to AI.

Give an AI assistant the 191 library names and ask it to tidy them, and it may quietly merge names, drop words or invent a missing Library. The output looks neat. Without a cleaning function of their own and a few test cases, a student has no way of knowing what was altered.

We teach the opposite habit: write the rule, test it, then let AI help with the parts you already understand and can check. Students under 18 use only AI tools whose terms permit their age, and school assignments remain their own.

Flexible pathways reward students who can show what they made and explain how; that starts with code they wrote. The longer argument is in whether coding is still worth learning.

How it works

A coding teacher for every Vermont town, online

Distance and small enrollments make specialist teachers hard to share in rural Vermont. A live online class does not depend on either.

Real-time teaching

Each lesson is live: the teacher watches the student code, asks questions and corrects course as it happens.

Fits a learning plan

We use US grade levels and can document projects for a personalized learning plan. Credit decisions belong to the school, and school work stays the student’s own.

Times

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Batches

Groups of fifteen to twenty peers at a similar level, from Vermont and across the US, so a student in a tiny school still has classmates.

One to one

Private lessons for a student who wants to move quickly, prepare for AP or build a specific project.

First lesson free

A full lesson with a real task and a real teacher, then a suggested course and time. No card is asked for.

Online from India, with no Vermont site

There is no Modern Age Coders center in Vermont and we claim none. Lessons are taught live online from India, so a computer, working audio and a reliable connection are all that is needed.

Fees

Fees for Vermont families

One clear set of figures for the whole state.

First classUSD 0

A complete lesson free of charge, followed by advice on level, course and time.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of live lessons in a batch of fifteen to twenty learners at the same level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

The same monthly pattern with one teacher for one learner.

Vermont families pay a single rate in US dollars, from the Northeast Kingdom to Bennington. Billing only starts after the free lesson, once a course and time are agreed, and the pricing page explains breaks and missed lessons.

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Reviews

Google reviews from parents and students

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews. These are real reviews, reproduced as written.

★★★★★

"The one step solution for my son. Modern Age Coders make learning coding so simple that kids love it. The teachers explain complex concepts clearly with practical exercises and interactive content."

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Parent

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders has been a game-changer for me. I struggled to grasp IT concepts and coding before joining, but their classes transformed everything. I can now confidently write complex programs with ease."

Samriddha Mondal

Student

★★★★★

"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

Vansh Agarwal

Student

★★★★★

"My child Dhairya is really enjoying the Modern Age Coders classes. This is his first online class and he eagerly looks forward to it. I can already see his improvement, and the teachers are very cooperative."

Sonam Oswal

Parent of Dhairya

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders have wonderful teachers who teach in a clear, easy and practical way. The teacher boosts students' confidence and inspires them to learn without hesitation."

Sonu Goyal

Parent

★★★★★

"I highly recommend this computer coding class! The teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about coding."

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Parent

Free placement class

Request a free lesson for a Vermont student

Let us know the grade and what they hope to make. A third grader might start with a Scratch story, a teenager with the library names or a first website.

FAQ

Vermont coding and AI questions

Answers sourced to the Agency of Education, Code.org and the College Board. Our own suggestions are labelled.

Does Vermont require computer science to graduate?

We found no statewide computer science course requirement. Vermont graduation runs through local proficiency requirements and the flexible pathways created by Act 77 of 2013.

What technology standards does Vermont use?

The Agency of Education says the State Board of Education adopted the ISTE Standards for student learning, aligned with the Education Quality Standards.

What is Act 77?

Act 77 of 2013 created the Flexible Pathways Initiative, found at 16 V.S.A. § 941. It covers personalized learning plans, dual enrollment, early college, work-based learning and virtual learning.

How many Vermont high schools offer computer science?

Code.org (2025) counts 33 of 55 Vermont high schools, or 60%, offering foundational computer science in 2023 to 2024.

How many Vermont students take computer science?

In 2023 to 2024 Code.org reports 766 of 24,384 high school students, or 3.14%, enrolled in a computer science course.

Can a Vermont student take college courses in high school?

Yes, through dual enrollment. The agency says eligible students can take up to two college courses under 16 V.S.A. § 944, and eligible twelfth graders can attend early college full-time for a year.

Will your classes earn Vermont school credit?

Not from us. Any credit is the school district's decision. We teach skills and help students build projects they can describe in a learning plan, and graded school work stays their own.

What times are classes for Vermont students?

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays. All times are shown in Eastern Time.

Is there a Vermont classroom?

No. We have no premises in Vermont. Every lesson is taught live and online from India.

How much do classes cost?

See the fees section on this page for the free first lesson, the monthly group rate and the monthly private rate. You pay nothing until after the free lesson.

Related pages

Four ways to start, wherever the school is

Scratch Coding for Kids

HTML & CSS for Beginners

Python for Teens

AP Computer Science A

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python Automation Course

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Codex & Claude Code

How Vermont’s graduation model leaves room for coding

No CS course mandate

Room to personalize

Ask before assuming

Cleaning the names of Vermont’s 191 public libraries

Spot the mess

Clean it

Count the words

Our counts, their data

Vermont computer science access and enrollment

Vermont’s ISTE Standards and what they ask of students

What they are

Where coding fits

Online options

Eastern Time from Burlington to Brattleboro

Through October

November 1, 2026

March 14, 2027

A Vermont student’s path from first program to AP

Tinker

Make and publish

Handle real data

Go further

An AI tool can clean a list. Can it tell you what it changed?

A coding teacher for every Vermont town, online

Real-time teaching

Fits a learning plan

Times

Batches

One to one

First lesson free

Fees for Vermont families

Google reviews from parents and students

Request a free lesson for a Vermont student

Vermont coding and AI questions

Does Vermont require computer science to graduate?

What technology standards does Vermont use?

What is Act 77?

How many Vermont high schools offer computer science?

How many Vermont students take computer science?

Can a Vermont student take college courses in high school?

Will your classes earn Vermont school credit?

What times are classes for Vermont students?

Is there a Vermont classroom?

How much do classes cost?

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